. His descendants told
Draper (about 1850) that the family tradition was, that Salling
and a son were employed by the governor of Virginia to explore
the country to the southwest; and when near the present Salem,
Roanoke county, they were captured by Cherokees and carried to
the Ohio River--one account says by way of the Tennessee,
another by the New (Great Kanawha), their boat being made of
buffalo skins. They appear by this tradition to have escaped,
and in descending the Mississippi to have fallen into the hands
of Spaniards. The son died, and the father was sent in a vessel
bound for Spain, there to be tried as a British spy; but the
Spaniard being captured by an English vessel, our hero was
landed at Charleston, whence he reached his frontier home after
an absence of over three years. This story differs in many
details from the one in Kercheval's _History of the Valley of
Virginia_, and also that in Withers's text, above. Salling kept
a journal which was extant in 1745, for in the Wisconsin
Historical Society's library is a diary kept by Capt. John
Buchanan, who notes that in that year he spent two days in
copying a part of it. In Du Pratz' _History of Louisiana_
(London, 1774), Salling and one John Howard are said to have
made this trip in 1742, and the authority is said to be a
_Report of the Government of Virginia_. But Salling must have
returned home by 1742, for his name is in the roll of Capt.
John McDowell's militia company, and he was probably in the
fight with the Indians (Dec. 14) that year, in which McDowell
lost his life. In 1746, we found Salling himself a militia
captain in the Rockbridge district of Augusta county. In
September, 1747, he was cited to appear at court martial for
not turning out to muster--and this is the last record we have
of him. Descendants, named Sallee, now live in Kentucky and
Tennessee.--R. G. T.

[5] John Lewis, the father of Gen. Andrew Lewis, was
probably of Welsh descent, and born in 1678 in County
Donegal, Ireland. About 1716 he married Margaret Lynn, of the
famous Lynns of Loch Lynn, Scotland. In a dispute over his
tenancy (1729), he killed a man of high station,--some say,
his Catholic landlord,--and fled to Portugal, w